Sing About Me Remix by Eric West Lyrics
[Part 1: Sing About Me]
[Chorus]
When the lights shut off and its my turn
To settle down, my main concern
Promise that you will sing about me
Promise that you will sing about me
Said when the lights shut off and its my turn
To settle down, my main concern
Promise that you will sing about me
Promise that you will sing about me
[Verse 1]
Lately I been fearing
The reaper been drawing near and
Been waiting for me so idle
Ironic cuz I been suicidal
Since back when I was 11 and life had felt so weird
Some of those first demons from then are still here
And we don't fight in rounds
We been fighting for many years
And what's scary is the winner of that fight still isn't clear
There was a point in time
Where I could just not close my eyes
Cuz I would see em in that darkness
Where they all like to reside
And I ain't prayed in a long time could God still wash these demons off me?
Or is it the weight I must bear and they just appear so daunting?
My past is as persistent as me
Its so damn haunting
As a matter of a fact now I've become an Insomni-
Ac due to the depression caused by the things that scar me
Is it that or have the institutions done all the harming?
The impact that they have on me now is quite alarming
Some of my experiences would make you skip a heartbeat
Like when a cop almost shot me
Thinking I was the school shooter
Would you stop or would you run?
Tell me how would you maneuver?
His partner saved my life and made it go a whole lot smoother
This was before Trayvon, we always hate on police cruisers
When all of this taken place I was only in 6th grade
In class at the teachers desk someone snuck up with a blade
Put it against my throat and then the bitch said not to say
Another word I know she heard
But the teacher just turned away
They ain't fire her neither they let the teacher stay
And my classmate got off free too
Cuz he claimed it was only play
See when you black they have a tendency to not hear your complains
Though I played the better man I would have loved to make him pay
Would have love to grab an AK
But i know that he in a gang and (Gunshots)
[Chorus]
Promise that you will sing about me
Promise that you will sing about me
I said when the lights shut off and it's my turn
To settle down, my main concern
Promise that you will sing about me
Promise that you will sing about me
[Verse 2]
Was always the definition of bliss
But now I live in a state
Where the colors are growing dull
And all food is losing it's taste
And I can't be bothered to try nothin
Cuz all my efforts will go to waste
I just wanna be cool again
Someone tell me what does it take
Cuz Im a danger to myself and I wanna feel safe
Why should I keep my emotions locked up in a safe?
Too codependent to be alone
But Ima need some space
Everytime I look in mirrors I wanna punch em in the face
Want my image to be erased
I've internalized all the hate
Everyday I self deprecate
Tell me can I find an escape?
Im black and cold and empty
Im something like outer space
But my blackness I must embrace
Cuz I know that I have a place
Cuz we live in a world where even children will judge on race
I mean Im naturally nappy so yes
I knew that'd be the case
But I was still a kid
I wasn't ready to see my fate
I didn't know they'd call me monkey
Or say that Im Gods mistake
He left me too long to bake
And so they got on me just roasting
And at home I was heated with anti black group chats they hosting
Drawings of me as an ape in the hallways they was postin
Black superintendent wasn't suspending
Bitch are you joking?
How could you do that to your kin?
What standards are you upholding
They only giving them a talk?
What the hell are you proposing?
They gon' think that what they did was fine
What morals are you promoting?
Matter fact, bitch you ain't black
All this time you was just posing
They stop me and you ain't stop them bitch
Wish the days were quicker
Why'd you be a bitch and go and snitch?
That's exactly why I hate these niggas
Why you here? This ain't a prison, you escaping nigga?
No one would hire you, even with an education nigga
You dirty monkeys hang in trees
That's exactly why we hang you niggers
I know you can hear me nigga, what? Are you angry nigga?
......
[Chorus]
Promise that you will sing about me
Promise that you will sing about me
I said when the lights shut off and it's my turn
To settle down, my main concern
Promise that you will sing about me
Promise that you will sing about me
[Verse 3]
I grew up knowing death was common it was normalized
Cuz brothers dying on the daily
Even little children die
I was 8 when grandma passed
But like the men I did not cry
Ironic how facing death is when we feel alive
And that's why I love the hood
Although crime stays on the rise
Like the spirits of the kids that said they permanent goodbyes
You ain't gotta be like Mike, a pistol make you fly
My biggest goal in life is to live to see 25
Just hope it doesn't hurt when God
Decides that it's my time
I just hope that a good legacy I'm gonna leave behind
Would my music grow some more if I were to leave tonight?
Or would you judge the darkness of my shadows when I see the light?
Will my image be worth being burned into your sight?
If I ain't accomplish shit should I still put up a fight?
I never really banged
But Im still coming from Venice
Where people died for respect
So I cared about my image
So if my name means nothing when I perish and I'm finished
At least I taught the world about the terrors that I've witnessed
And if I die a fruitless life
Well then that's just on me
Im tryna die with no regrets
Forget being on fleek
Pops wants me to be the rose in the concrete
I'll prove to him the son that he rose is concrete
So when life flashes before me
From the moment it begins
And I relive every single moment that I've sinned
I pray I've had an impact on your life with this pen
And that yall can sing about me when my life's at an end
Am I worth it?
Did I put enough work in?
[Chorus]
Promise that you will sing about me
Promise that you will sing about me
I said when the lights shut off and it's my turn
To settle down, my main concern
Promise that you will sing about me
Promise that you will sing about me
[Interlude: KKK interview with Ilia Calderón]
[Part 2: I'm Dying of Thirst]
[Remade by EyeJay]
Shooting each other
We killing our kind
Reducing our numbers
Mass suicide
By preteens
We seen things
That pop as loud as drums and have three beams
Grand mama runs
My momma runs
From people who have the same skin as her son
We dying of thirst
We dying of thirst
Thats why I keep the water in case Im dying of thirst
With drugs and sex, we love it raw
We die of aids
Die of withdraw
Im flipping words
They flipping birds
The neighborhood crack dealers our local nurse
We stay scheming
Plot on each other
If you can't find who you beefing with then kill his brother
Everyday we killed by cops
Since slavery it never stopped
"For Rodney King, for Michael Scott"
But in all black neighborhoods we still getting shot
Molest a girl
Now she a slave
Sell her body drill her into an early grave
Its such a shame
We gotta save
Our brothers n sisters lets not eradicate
Our own people, our own queens
This self love is a beautiful thing
Kanye was first to lead
Son of Christ had to be black cuz Jesus is King
We dying of thirst
We dying of thirst
We dying of thirst
We dying of thirst
I keep the holy water cuz we dying of thirst
[Chorus]
When the lights shut off and its my turn
To settle down, my main concern
Promise that you will sing about me
Promise that you will sing about me
Said when the lights shut off and its my turn
To settle down, my main concern
Promise that you will sing about me
Promise that you will sing about me
[Verse 1]
Lately I been fearing
The reaper been drawing near and
Been waiting for me so idle
Ironic cuz I been suicidal
Since back when I was 11 and life had felt so weird
Some of those first demons from then are still here
And we don't fight in rounds
We been fighting for many years
And what's scary is the winner of that fight still isn't clear
There was a point in time
Where I could just not close my eyes
Cuz I would see em in that darkness
Where they all like to reside
And I ain't prayed in a long time could God still wash these demons off me?
Or is it the weight I must bear and they just appear so daunting?
My past is as persistent as me
Its so damn haunting
As a matter of a fact now I've become an Insomni-
Ac due to the depression caused by the things that scar me
Is it that or have the institutions done all the harming?
The impact that they have on me now is quite alarming
Some of my experiences would make you skip a heartbeat
Like when a cop almost shot me
Thinking I was the school shooter
Would you stop or would you run?
Tell me how would you maneuver?
His partner saved my life and made it go a whole lot smoother
This was before Trayvon, we always hate on police cruisers
When all of this taken place I was only in 6th grade
In class at the teachers desk someone snuck up with a blade
Put it against my throat and then the bitch said not to say
Another word I know she heard
But the teacher just turned away
They ain't fire her neither they let the teacher stay
And my classmate got off free too
Cuz he claimed it was only play
See when you black they have a tendency to not hear your complains
Though I played the better man I would have loved to make him pay
Would have love to grab an AK
But i know that he in a gang and (Gunshots)
[Chorus]
Promise that you will sing about me
Promise that you will sing about me
I said when the lights shut off and it's my turn
To settle down, my main concern
Promise that you will sing about me
Promise that you will sing about me
[Verse 2]
Was always the definition of bliss
But now I live in a state
Where the colors are growing dull
And all food is losing it's taste
And I can't be bothered to try nothin
Cuz all my efforts will go to waste
I just wanna be cool again
Someone tell me what does it take
Cuz Im a danger to myself and I wanna feel safe
Why should I keep my emotions locked up in a safe?
Too codependent to be alone
But Ima need some space
Everytime I look in mirrors I wanna punch em in the face
Want my image to be erased
I've internalized all the hate
Everyday I self deprecate
Tell me can I find an escape?
Im black and cold and empty
Im something like outer space
But my blackness I must embrace
Cuz I know that I have a place
Cuz we live in a world where even children will judge on race
I mean Im naturally nappy so yes
I knew that'd be the case
But I was still a kid
I wasn't ready to see my fate
I didn't know they'd call me monkey
Or say that Im Gods mistake
He left me too long to bake
And so they got on me just roasting
And at home I was heated with anti black group chats they hosting
Drawings of me as an ape in the hallways they was postin
Black superintendent wasn't suspending
Bitch are you joking?
How could you do that to your kin?
What standards are you upholding
They only giving them a talk?
What the hell are you proposing?
They gon' think that what they did was fine
What morals are you promoting?
Matter fact, bitch you ain't black
All this time you was just posing
They stop me and you ain't stop them bitch
Wish the days were quicker
Why'd you be a bitch and go and snitch?
That's exactly why I hate these niggas
Why you here? This ain't a prison, you escaping nigga?
No one would hire you, even with an education nigga
You dirty monkeys hang in trees
That's exactly why we hang you niggers
I know you can hear me nigga, what? Are you angry nigga?
......
[Chorus]
Promise that you will sing about me
Promise that you will sing about me
I said when the lights shut off and it's my turn
To settle down, my main concern
Promise that you will sing about me
Promise that you will sing about me
[Verse 3]
I grew up knowing death was common it was normalized
Cuz brothers dying on the daily
Even little children die
I was 8 when grandma passed
But like the men I did not cry
Ironic how facing death is when we feel alive
And that's why I love the hood
Although crime stays on the rise
Like the spirits of the kids that said they permanent goodbyes
You ain't gotta be like Mike, a pistol make you fly
My biggest goal in life is to live to see 25
Just hope it doesn't hurt when God
Decides that it's my time
I just hope that a good legacy I'm gonna leave behind
Would my music grow some more if I were to leave tonight?
Or would you judge the darkness of my shadows when I see the light?
Will my image be worth being burned into your sight?
If I ain't accomplish shit should I still put up a fight?
I never really banged
But Im still coming from Venice
Where people died for respect
So I cared about my image
So if my name means nothing when I perish and I'm finished
At least I taught the world about the terrors that I've witnessed
And if I die a fruitless life
Well then that's just on me
Im tryna die with no regrets
Forget being on fleek
Pops wants me to be the rose in the concrete
I'll prove to him the son that he rose is concrete
So when life flashes before me
From the moment it begins
And I relive every single moment that I've sinned
I pray I've had an impact on your life with this pen
And that yall can sing about me when my life's at an end
Am I worth it?
Did I put enough work in?
[Chorus]
Promise that you will sing about me
Promise that you will sing about me
I said when the lights shut off and it's my turn
To settle down, my main concern
Promise that you will sing about me
Promise that you will sing about me
[Interlude: KKK interview with Ilia Calderón]
[Part 2: I'm Dying of Thirst]
[Remade by EyeJay]
Shooting each other
We killing our kind
Reducing our numbers
Mass suicide
By preteens
We seen things
That pop as loud as drums and have three beams
Grand mama runs
My momma runs
From people who have the same skin as her son
We dying of thirst
We dying of thirst
Thats why I keep the water in case Im dying of thirst
With drugs and sex, we love it raw
We die of aids
Die of withdraw
Im flipping words
They flipping birds
The neighborhood crack dealers our local nurse
We stay scheming
Plot on each other
If you can't find who you beefing with then kill his brother
Everyday we killed by cops
Since slavery it never stopped
"For Rodney King, for Michael Scott"
But in all black neighborhoods we still getting shot
Molest a girl
Now she a slave
Sell her body drill her into an early grave
Its such a shame
We gotta save
Our brothers n sisters lets not eradicate
Our own people, our own queens
This self love is a beautiful thing
Kanye was first to lead
Son of Christ had to be black cuz Jesus is King
We dying of thirst
We dying of thirst
We dying of thirst
We dying of thirst
I keep the holy water cuz we dying of thirst